BREAKING: NVIDIA just announced that SpaceXAI will deploy Vera CPUs and the Vera Rubin platform to scale Grok’s AI infrastructure from Earth to orbit.
• SpaceXAI is expanding the infrastructure behind Grok as it moves toward gigawatts of computing capacity.
• NVIDIA calls Vera the first CPU built for AI agents. It accelerates tool use, code execution, data processing, orchestration and simulations.
• Vera features 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores and up to 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth, enabling up to 1.8× faster task completion than x86 CPUs.
• Faster CPU performance will help AI agents act more quickly while keeping expensive GPUs fully utilized.
• SpaceXAI’s first-generation Starmind AI satellite will be based on an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system, extending the same AI architecture into orbit.
SpaceXAI President Mike Nicolls says this will deliver “higher-performance AI agents and more useful work from every watt of compute.”
ELON MUSK: “That’s the car that I was driving around LA for like three years. And because I thought, well, it’s the first flight of Falcon Heavy, probably going to fail. But we don’t want to put something boring on it, like, you know, I think Boeing or whatever would put like a concrete block, which is extremely boring.
So, we put Starman flying around, and he’s still up there. The car is orbiting between Earth and Mars. So, and we’ll be up there, I think, for at least 10 million years.”
Peter is not correct about me in this case.
I have always known that dangers from Earth will also pose dangers to Mars. Obviously so. However, the immense difficulty of traveling to Mars means that there is a much higher likelihood of mitigating risks originating from Earth.
A clear example of major risk reduction would be a deadly pandemic. Since it takes 6 months to reach Mars, there is an automatic 6 month quarantine!
Even traveling at the speed of light, a deadly computer virus or AI attack can potentially be stopped due to Mars being ~4 to ~20 light-minutes from Earth.
This doesn’t mean that a Mars civilization eliminates all risk, but it absolutely greatly reduces the risk of consciousness being extinguished.
Moreover, Mars is a stepping stone to extending consciousness broadly within our solar system and ultimately to millions of stars within our galaxy, which would extend the probable lifespan of consciousness as we know it by many orders of magnitude.
That said, what I personally find most motivating is not the risk reduction aspect of extending life beyond Earth, but rather the inspiring nature of exploration and being out there among the stars!
Perhaps we will meet aliens or find the remains of long-dead civilizations that lasted millions of years …